The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-10-19
LONDON GOSSIP.
A Physician Honored by the Queen
The Quee~'s Economy.

kenzie for his services to the Crown Prince
of Germany. If there are men in the world
who deserve to have honors conferred upon
them, it is the physicians who attend upon
royalty, for their position is anything but
desirable one in one way, and were it not
for the rewards attached, | fear that roy
atty would be worse off in the matter of
medical attendance than even the poor of
the slums.
In this connection l heard good story
the other day in regard to royal physician
DR.. Bottkin, the confidential physician of
the Czarina, always travels with her, and
has accompanied her as usual to Denmark
1t appears that when Bottkin was first
called in to prescribe it became necessary
to examine her imperial majesty with tie
stethoscope, and the physician requested the
great lady to disrobe for that purpose
There was a frigid refusal, and a great show
of offended imperial dignity, whereupon
Bottl1in simply bounced out of her majesty's
presence, saying-and not in a whisper-that
such fine lady patients might go to the devil,
but they need not come to him any more for
advice.
The attendants trembled and quaked, and
the Empress was MORALLY offended; but
when it came to the ears of the Car of all
the RuSsas, he took quite different view
of the matter Flattery was all very well
in other apartments, he said, but give him
an honest physician not afraid to speak his
mind. So he sent for Bottkin and inter
viewed him, and the result was, that the
worthy physician was appointed private
medical attendant to the Empress at an
enormous salary.
The Queen is still in the Highlands, living
in simple fashion on her limited income 1t
is no wonder that her majesty spends so
much of the year in retirement in view of
the fact that she has only the following al
lowances, viz, 100000 per year for the
privy purse, e131 200 for household sala-
ries, a172, 800 for household expenses, e13,-
200 to give away in charity, and an allow
ance of $1,000 for sundries, all unappro-
priated. The rest of her family receive from
the country g15S, 900, and this, however, is
but small portion of what royalty costs
per year. I wonder what the people in
America, who growl at the paltry S50,000
per year which is paid to the President in
country which is considered extravaganza
in allowing Foreign Ministers from one
third to one-quarter the amount any other
first-class government does, and who con-
slider the Congressman bloated bondholder
on a salary of FL, 900 per year, would think
if the expenses of the President of the White
House amounted to 81, 100000 per annum.
| am looking with a shotgun for the man
who told me that living was cheap in Lon
don. | can assure you that with the excep-
ton of the items of rent and gentlemen's
clothing, everything in London costs nearly
twice as much as in America. Provisions
are exceptionally dear, and the market is
anything but good, while servants wages
are cheap, they are so lazy that it takes so
many of them to do the work of one smart
man and woman that the aggregate wages
are about the same, and you are in addi-
ton, out of pocket for the amount they eat
and waste. l have been experimenting in
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hopes of solving the problem of living in
London. have solved the problem, and
am insolvent in consequence. The hotels
are impossible, and lodging houses very
much the same, the point being in each case
that while you start in at very reasonable
rate, the extras count up at such rate that
your bills in very short time are positively
appalling. Boarding houses, where you can
get, for a single man, good room and
board from So TO $40 a week, such as are
plenty in New York, are almost quite I'M
known on this side, for to live equally well
for single man in London will cost him
$25 per week.
Much curiosity is evinced as to the desti-
nation of Buffalo Bill and his "Wild Westn
after the close of the American Exhibition.
but Manager Salisbury and his ''Star'' keen
their own counsel very closely in regard to
this matter.
The subscriptions of the KatharineS
GATHERINGS, and Hates of England toward
erecting a fitting monument to Queen
Katherine of Aragon in Peterborough
Cathedral, has already reached a pretty
high figure. Being in the Cathedral a few
days ago, | read, among other donations,
that of the Duchess katharine" of West
minister, of 95. 1t seems now, that since
a gentleman has promised to place at his
own expense, monumental brass over the
Queens remains, the ladies' memorial
will take the form of
stained glass window. There are
only four brass letters left to mark the
place where the Unhappy Queen is buried
Cromwells soldiers having entirely des-
troyed her tomb and all its belongings, so
that monument of some sort is absolutely
necessary, unless we wish to lose sight alto
gether of the resting place of one of the
most estimable of Queens. By the way, in
a month or so the grave of Katharine is to
be opened, and it will be necessary to re
move it for short time during the repairs.
which are actively progressing, This will
be grand opportunity for those who, like
Mr.. Pepys, wish to see a Queen, even if she
be dead and may possibly lead to some
singular discoveries. According to an old
tradition, some important documents are
buried with this Queen.
The late mad King of Bavaria's personal
effects have just been sold at Munich, in
order TO deffay expenses In other words,
to raise a little capital, wherewith to pay off
his Just debts. The catalogue was an extra
ordinary one, and shows plainly the state of
the monarch's brain. A pair of scarlet
velvet trousers fetched the equivalent of
910. A toy steam engine, with silver
wheels, went for song. A pair of musical
hairbrushes were not sold. owing to the
works having gone wrong, thus making the
music mute. But, perhaps, the funniest,
and yet withal the saddest thing in the
whole collection, was the stuffed monkey
which was the King inseparable bedfelIow
during the last few years of his melancholy
life.
The Brasseys have left Sydney in their
yacht Sunbeam A good story is told to
the credit of Lord Tommy's papa, which
runs Just like this. In the dawn of life
Lord Brassey's papa was young man with
lots of energy, good character, and lit fol-
Iows) no cash. He was in the employ of a
Chester banker, Mr.. Wardell Being, like
his SON wife, of pushing turn of mind,
he saw his way to enter on small contracts.
At last he was offered very large railway
contract far beyond his means. In his ex-
tremity he waited on his old master, laid the
facts of the case before him, and asked him
for a large advance But he con
cluded, 81 have no security to offer you"
Eyes, you have--the best-a good charac-
ter. You shall have the money" MIR. War
dell lived before the days of defaulting cler-
~.,fT fe.s..